How’s that perfection thing working out?
In our democratic society we love to talk about freedom. But anybody out there ever tried to be perfect? Ah, shucks. Turns out we’re not as free as we thought.
Freedom of the will is a thorny issue—but only theoretically speaking. The problem of the un-free will is not a philosophical problem. The crux is that we are called to perfection, and we can't achieve it, so none of us is truly free.
“Free will, after the fall, has the power to do good only in a passive capacity, but it can always do evil in an active capacity,” –Thesis 14, Heidelberg Disputation
Here’s a non-Yoda translation: after sin came into the world, the human will was so corrupted, even our best efforts are tainted before God. People have the capacity to do good but only when God comes onto the scene and makes us alive again. Read the rest HERE
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